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domine I'ancienne residence des aieux de Bady. C'est une construction en briques cuites, elevee de quatre etages; abandonnee, ainsi que toutes

ses dependances, elle est deja a demi delabree."

Poncet in 1699 says (p. 19): "the King's Palace is surrounded with high Walls of Brick bak'd in the Sun, but has nothing regular in it. You see nothing but a confus'd Heap of Buildings, without Symmetry or Beauty."

XXXVIII Cp. Poncet (p. 19): "When we had almost past over the Court, they oblig'd us to stop short before a Stone, which is near to an open Hall, where the King usually gives Audience to Embassadors." Burton (Pil-

grimage..., II, p. 31) uses the word " dakka" for a stone bench at Medina. XLi " Urn Lahm" is several times mentioned in D 3 (see Nos. 84, 88, 157, 165), and is similarly identified with 1095 a.h. (1684 A.D.). XLii Badi el Ahmar would appear to be the king whom Poncet found reigning in 1699. Bruce gives his dates as 1701 to 1726, but I agree with Jackson (q.v. p. 98, note) in thinking those dates must be less accurate than the dates given by Cailliaud (1687-1714) or D 7. Poncet describes him

thus: "That Prince is Nineteen Years of Age, black, but well shap'd and

of a Majestick Presence, not having thick lips, nor flat Nose like the Rest

of his Subjects." In other words, he was more of an Arab than a negro type and therefore likely to have been paler in complexion (i.e. "Ahmar").

The rebellion referred to here and Badi's exploit are also mentioned in D 3, 153 (q.v.). Cp. Jackson, pp. 35-36. EI Amin Aradib zoalad 'Agib was presumably one of the 'Abdullah of Kerri. Cailliaud (11, 256) notes that Badi's vizier was Nasir el Tamani.

XLiii The biography of this saint is given in D 3 (No. 125). From D 3 and the statements of his descendants it seems that his real name was Hammad and not Ahmad.

The reading vy is given, and not vv, in other copies.

XLiv " The nczcs of his doings reached the FuNG in the south. . . ," etc., is as follows in the Arabic :

J-"* 05»*^ ^>UJ' 15* t^.>-!/J 0-* O^y.3 C^y^j^i \iH'>^^ ^

Lulu is not mentioned elsewhere: Jackson (p. 36) assumes it to be the commander's name.

The ''slaying'' referred to may be the ceremonial slaying of the king as practised at Sennar (vide Bruce, and cp. Vol. i, p. 50 and note to D 5 (a), vi), or the sense may be no more than the obvious one, that the military were all-powerful and that no one could oppose them.

XLV Cailliaud (11, 256) mentions that Ounsa died at Sennar of small-pox. XLVii We have seen from the preceding paragraphs that the succession to the throne had been purely patrilinear. For the Ounsab see BA, 214 and D 2, I : they were the royal family.

XLViii "Abu Shelukh" (7-^ ajI) has been quite incorrectly called "Abu Shilluk" (>iJULi ^1) by several writers. Westermann is thus led into using the name as evidence of what may perhaps be taken as true